# sentina
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin sentīna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [sənˈti.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [senˈti.na]

### Noun

sentina f (plural sentines)
* (nautical) bilge (lowest part of a ship)
* (figurative) cesspool

### Further reading

* “sentina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin sentina.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /senˈti.na/
* Rhymes: -ina
* Hyphenation: sen‧tì‧na

### Noun

sentina f (plural sentine)
* (nautical) bilge (lowest part of a ship)

### Anagrams

* annesti, astenni, innesta, intensa, sannite, tensina

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *semtīna, from Proto-Indo-European *semH- (“to scoop”). Cognate with Proto-Celtic *semeti (“to pour”) (compare Middle Welsh gwehynnu (“to pour”), Old Breton douohinnom (“drained”)), Lithuanian sémti (“to pump, scoop”), and possibly Ancient Greek ἀμάομαι (amáomai, “to draw (milk)”). Compare also Ancient Greek ἀντλία (antlía), ἄντλος (ántlos, “bilgewater”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /senˈtiː.na/, [s̠ɛn̪ˈt̪iːnä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /senˈti.na/, [sen̪ˈt̪iːnä]

### Noun

sentīna f (genitive sentīnae); first declension
* (nautical) bilgewater
* dregs (of society)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Catalan: sentina
* Italian: sentina
* Portuguese: sentina
* Sicilian: sintina
* Spanish: sentina

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sentīna”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 554
* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sem-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 330
* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀμάωμαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 82
* ↑ “sentina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* ↑ “sentina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ↑ sentina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* ↑ sentina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin sentina.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /sẽˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /sẽˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /sẽˈt͡ʃi.na/
* (Portugal) IPA: /sẽˈti.nɐ/
* Hyphenation: sen‧ti‧na

### Noun

sentina f (plural sentinas)
* (nautical) bilge (lowest part of a ship)
* toilet (device for depositing human waste and flushing it away)
    Synonyms: vaso sanitário, privada, retrete, sanita

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin sentīna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /senˈtina/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪i.na]
* Rhymes: -ina
* Syllabification: sen‧ti‧na

### Noun

sentina f (plural sentinas)
* (nautical) bilge
* hovel; hole

### Further reading

* “sentina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10